From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed70286b8b89ab0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Ada-like language Date: 1999/04/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 467284542 References: <3366D07E.C1E62BDE@polymtl.ca> <7f854r$elk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 924296944 212 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 dennison@telepath.com wrote: > In article <3366D07E.C1E62BDE@polymtl.ca>, > Olivier Marcoux wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I'm searching a list of currently used Ada-like languages > > or Ada-derived languages having almost the same syntax as Ada > > > > Can you help me ? Or do you have web link to a presentation of such > > languages ? I think Oracle (the DB company) made a language (PSQL?) that is based on Ada. I'm not sure though... > A computer language family tree would be an interesting project. > > The only ones I've seen that look similar to a casual obverver are Pascal and > the Modula varieties. Oberon looks a bit similar, but its just different > enough that I wouldn't count it. > > I don't think there are *any* true Ada-derived languages (well...perhaps VHDL, > if you count hardware design languages). Not something I'd brag about either, being an Ada 95 and Verilog user. VHDL truly *is* a committee designed language, and it shows. I think Ada is a much nicer language for the sort of "high level" modeling that VHDL is supposedly good at than VHDL. -- Brian